[Python-Dev] Import hook to do end-of-line conversion?

[Greg Stein]

On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 06:25:52PM +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> jack wrote:
> > There's talk on the PythonMac-SIG to create an import hook that would
> > read modules with either \r, \n or \r\n newlines and convert them to
> > the local convention before feeding them to the rest of the import
> > machinery.
> 
> why not fix the compiler instead?

Exactly. That is where the correct fix should go. The compile can/should
recognize all types of newlines as the NEWLINE token.

Cheers,
-g

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